NYC Arts: The Complete Guide to Art and Culture

The World Financial Center is the heart of Battery Park City, an assembly of parks, boardwalk, residential towers and office buildings. The center's arts and events program encompasses approximately 45 music and dance performances, six visual arts exhibits and six festivals yearly. Music events regularly partner with WNYC's New Sounds radio show, which broadcasts new works by composers, from opera to jazz to folk. Most programs are held in the spectacular Winter Garden, a vaulted glass and steel dome enclosing a grove of palm trees. Seating at all events is free and first-come, first-serve.

Summer events are held outside on the esplanade along the Hudson River.

Performances are scheduled at lunchtime, in the evening and on weekend. Exhibitions and installations take place indoors in the Courtyard Gallery, which presents photography, digital art and other thematically oriented shows.

• Directions: Subway: E to World Trade Center. Walk west on Vesey Street. Entrances to Winter Garden are on West Street, Vesey Street and from Hudson River esplanade.

• ADA Compliant Restrooms
• Disability Access
• Gift Shops: A variety of stores are within the World Financial Center.
• On-Site Food: Various eateries and restaurants are on the ground level of the World Financial Center.
• On-Site Parking: There are parking garages in the area.